Two W&M faculty members singled out as top professors

A model for chemistryWilliam & Mary chemist Elizabeth Harbron has been honored for her blend of research and instruction. Her latest honor came from the web site Affordable Colleges online, which listed her among the top women professors at affordable colleges.
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Two William & Mary faculty members were singled out for
excellence by the website Affordable Colleges Online.

Megan Tschannen-Moran, a professor in the School of
Education, was listed among AC Online’s Top
Education Professors at Affordable Colleges, while Elizabeth Harbron,
associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, was listed among the Top
Women Professors at Affordable Colleges.

Affordable Colleges Online gathers and presents information
on institutions, programs and options in higher education that it deems
represent a high return on financial investment.

Megan Tschannen-Moran teaches master's and doctoral students
in Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership program. In May, she received
the university’s Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr., Award for sustained excellence in
teaching. Her nominators for that award said that she nurtures students as both
independent learners and members of a scholarly community.

Harbron
has won a number of honors for her style of blending instruction with research.
She has received the Arts & Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence, the
Plumeri Award for Teaching Excellence, the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, the
Alumni Fellowship Award and was named a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar.